Phoebe Judge

Gavin says they wanted to study interviews with American rap stars and skaters, but all they could really get their hands on in time was a DVD of Friends and a few American movies.

Gavin started watching Back to the Future over and over again until he could say Michael J. Fox's lines along with him.

He also watched a lot of Good Will Hunting and studied Matt Damon's character.

Billy studied Matthew Perry's character in Friends, Chandler.

They watched as many episodes as they could.

Gavin says they paused it whenever Chandler said something funny and then tried to repeat it.

They came up with new names for their American personas.

Gavin Bain became Brains McLeod and Billy Boyd became Syllable.

They called their group Syllable and Brains.

They decided they would be from California.

They picked a city called Hemet, where Billy actually had family.

Billy bleached his hair.

Gavin tried out a trucker hat.

They both started wearing more colorful clothes.

And at the end of the two weeks, they got back on the 13-hour bus ride to London.

The first place they went was Sony Records to meet with Dougie Bruce, the scout who had heard their song on the radio.

When you say you were like banging and stomping, is that something you thought like Americans did?

Like they just kind of take the room?

Yeah.

I mean, it really feels like two opposite ends of the spectrum to be Eminem on stage and Chandler off the stage.